Desalination

Desalination or desalinization is a process that removes minerals from saline water. More generally, desalination may also refer to the removal of salts and minerals, as in soil desalination, which also happens to be a major issue for agricultural production.

Salt water is desalinated to produce fresh water suitable for human consumption or irrigation. One potential by-product of desalination is salt. Desalination is used on many seagoing ships and submarines. Most of the modern interest in desalination is focused on developing cost-effective ways of providing fresh water for human use. Along with recycled wastewater, this is one of the few rainfall-independent water sources.

Due to relatively high energy consumption, the costs of desalinating sea water are generally higher than the alternatives (fresh water from rivers or groundwater, water recycling and water conservation), but alternatives are not always available and rapid overdraw and depletion of reserves is a critical problem worldwide. Quoting Christopher Gasson of Global Water Intelligence, "At the moment, around 1% of the world's population are dependent on desalinated water to meet their daily needs, but by 2025, the UN expects 14% of the world's population to be encountering water scarcity. Unless people get radically better at water conservation, the desalination industry has a very strong future indeed."

Factory

A factory (previously manufactory) or manufacturing plant is an industrial site, usually consisting of buildings and machinery, or more commonly a complex having several buildings, where workers manufacturegoods or operate machinesprocessing one product into another.

Factories arose with the introduction of machinery during the Industrial Revolution when the capital and space requirements became too great for cottage industry or workshops. Early factories that contained small amounts of machinery, such as one or two spinning mules, and fewer than a dozen workers have been called "glorified workshops".

Most modern factories have large warehouses or warehouse-like facilities that contain heavy equipment used for assembly line production. Large factories tend to be located with access to multiple modes of transportation, with some having rail, highway and water loading and unloading facilities.

Recording and mastering

Highly Evolved was recorded and mixed at Sound Factory and Sunset Sound Recorders in Hollywood, California. It was recorded between July 2001 and February 2002. The recording was assisted by Craig Conard, Kevin Dean and Nathan Burden.

"Get Free" was mixed at Enterprise 1, Burbank, California and was assisted by Brian Douglass.

Factory (trading post)

A factory (from Latinfacere, meaning "to do"; Portuguesefeitoria, Dutchfactorij, Frenchfactorerie, GermanFaktorei) was an establishment for factors or merchants carrying on business in foreign lands. Initially established in parts of Medieval Europe, factories eventually spread to other parts of the world in the wake of European trading ventures and, in many cases, were precursor to colonial expansion. Factories could serve simultaneously as market, warehouse, customs, defense and support to navigation or exploration, headquarters or de facto government of local communities. The head of the factory was the chief factor.

In North America, this trading formula was adopted by colonists and later Americans to exchange goods with local non-Western societies, especially in Native American Indian territory. In that context, these establishments were often called trading posts.

Desalination

Desalination or desalinization is a process that removes minerals from saline water. More generally, desalination may also refer to the removal of salts and minerals, as in soil desalination, which also happens to be a major issue for agricultural production.

Salt water is desalinated to produce fresh water suitable for human consumption or irrigation. One potential by-product of desalination is salt. Desalination is used on many seagoing ships and submarines. Most of the modern interest in desalination is focused on developing cost-effective ways of providing fresh water for human use. Along with recycled wastewater, this is one of the few rainfall-independent water sources.

Due to relatively high energy consumption, the costs of desalinating sea water are generally higher than the alternatives (fresh water from rivers or groundwater, water recycling and water conservation), but alternatives are not always available and rapid overdraw and depletion of reserves is a critical problem worldwide. Quoting Christopher Gasson of Global Water Intelligence, "At the moment, around 1% of the world's population are dependent on desalinated water to meet their daily needs, but by 2025, the UN expects 14% of the world's population to be encountering water scarcity. Unless people get radically better at water conservation, the desalination industry has a very strong future indeed."

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Oceana, Africa’s largest fishing company, has moved to establish water security through desalination plants at two of its factories on the West Coast. Desalination is a controversial technology, with the costs of establishing and operating plant often cited as prohibitive ... A R300m desalination plant in Richards Bay, commissioned in a public-private ......

Fishing company Oceana will invest R20m in a desalination plant at its west coast factory as businesses look to save water amid a major drought in the Western Cape, officials said on Monday ... The investment by Oceana means the factory will not draw water ......

CAPE TOWN, Feb 5 (Reuters) - South African fishing company Oceana will invest 20 million rand ($1.7 million) in a desalination plant at its west coast factory as businesses look to save water amid a major drought in the Western Cape, officials said on Monday....

Cape Town’s deputy mayor Ian Nielson says plans to build additional desalination plants in the city are currently at tender stage and could be announced in the next few weeks ... “But we are hopeful that, in the next few weeks, we will be able to announce some additional desalination plants as well.” ... “These are temporary desalination plants that are containerised....

Various water & wastewater treatment technologies such as disinfection, filtration, desalination, and testing are utilized by industrial processing plants ... The growth of the desalination segment can be attributed to the increased usage of desalination equipment to purify sea water/salt water as well as wastewater from factories....

9 (Xinhua) -- Morocco will set up a new seawater desalinationfactory in the southern city of Chtouka to meet increasing demand for drinking water, local media reported on Thursday ... Morocco has revealed recently that it is planning to set up another factory for seawater ......

The project consists of planning and setting up a factory for seawater desalination, which will supply water to the northeastern provinces of Al Hoceima and Nador, the financial daily L'Economiste pointed out....

It's a humanitarian catastrophe with hospitals and homes unable to perform critical tasks ...The U.N ...Transcript ... AMY GOODMAN ... Second, the desalinationfactories, it doesn’t work ... The sewage factories cannot work ... Factories, it’s mission impossible, I mean, to make it work ... And all what we need is small pipe, I mean, coming to Gaza and to instill a factory for electricity, and then we can have factory for us and for the region maybe ... Yeah?....

Arabian Construction Company (ACC). UAE. The Role. – Study the Tender Documents, B.O.Q., Specifications & Drawings and advise the InquiryEngineer of any discrepancies ... Requirements ... Must be computer literate and speak fluent English ... About the Company ... From power generation and desalination plants, to factories, hotels, hospitals, and intricately sophisticated smart buildings ... Read More ....

New Delhi... According to Chinese media, an event was held in Karamay where many people tasted Pakistani seafood ... According to Chinese media, the company has invested as much as 510 million yuan ($74 million) to establish seafood freezing workshops, seafood deep processing workshops, an ice making factory, a sea water desalinationfactory, a packaging factory and a maritime scientific research center in Gwadar ... ....

"It's fresh and has a delicate taste," one participant at the event stated ... The company invested approximately $74 million in establishing seafood freezing workshops, seafood deep processing workshops, an ice making factory, a sea water desalinationfactory, a packaging factory and a maritime scientific research center in Gwadar. According to Global Times Ma said Chinese companies had received a warm welcome in Pakistan ... ....

The samples, examined at the advanced food control lab, were collected from 34 water desalination stations and factories across the emirate, and failed to pass the bromates scan, according to a top civil official here ... Elaborating, Al Tunaiji said all the water desalinationfactories and stations in the emirate are subjected to the bromates scan on an annual basis....